One specimen found; side of swampy area. Pine Barrens.
Cap 4.5cm across; length 5cm, under beech, smell faintly mealy, velvety surface
RBP Closest match Calocybe ionides at 95.99%
LSU/Rr0r Closest matches are Calocybe convexa at 97.99% and Calocybe ionides at 97.01%
Near beech and oak
Calocybe "ionides-IN01"
Around Acer stump. Caps are 3.5-7cm in diameter, yellow, velvety.
The spore print is salmon.
Basidiospores are subglobose, measured
(5.3) 5.7 - 6.5 (6.8) × (4.9) 5 - 5.9 (6.3) µm
Q = 1 - 1.2 (1.3) ; N = 21
Me = 6.1 × 5.4 µm ; Qe = 1.1
On the ground in a broadleaf forest in a dog park.
Apothecium is 3.4mm in diameter, yellow-green with short stipe.
Asci 8-spored, IKI+ weak.
Ascospores fusiform, purple with longitude ridges, measured
(29.4) 29.5 - 32.56 (32.6) × (12) 12.2 - 13.6 µm
Q = (2.2) 2.3 - 2.6 (2.7) ; N = 11
Me = 30.9 × 12.8 µm ; Qe = 2.4
Paraphyses irregular shape at the apex.
Sitting on the surface with squirrel tooth marks on it under Eastern White Pine and Nordmann fir. Smells mushroomy, but also a bit like drying latex paint. Taste mild, pleasant but not a lot of flavor. @tombigelow suggested Melanogaster tuberiformis before I even got it home. Spores brown, 13-18.8 x 8.2-11.4µm
On recently dead Fir - Abies balsamea with needles still attached to some branches.
Apothecia are bright orange with hyaline/white marginal hairs, up to 2mm in diameter.
Asci 8-spored, croziers(-), IKI-.
Ascospores are hyaline, subfusiform.
Paraphyses are cylindrical with carotenoid VBs.
On rotten maple wood. Swampy area in the Pine Barrens. Not mature spores were released. Root of hairs have up to six branches. Cups were 2mm in diameter. Asci: 240 x 19.7-22.2 um. Paraphyses with enlarged tips 240 x 7.9 um. Immature spores 22.2 x 16 um.
Near snowmelt under Abies, growing from a rotten log. No odor, taste farinaceous and slightly bitter.
Spores measure (8.7) 9.2 - 11 (11.4) × (6.6) 6.8 - 8.1 (8.5) µm
Q = (1.2) 1.3 - 1.4 (1.5) ; N = 20
Me = 10.1 × 7.5 µm ; Qe = 1.3
Spores measured in face view, including hilar appendage.
On a conifer stump.
Spores measure (10.5) 10.53 - 11 (11.1) × (9.6) 9.7 - 10.1 (10.2) µm
Q = (1) 1.1 ; N = 6
Me = 10.8 × 9.9 µm ; Qe = 1.1
https://mushroomobserver.org/477498
Spore 9.6-11.1x 5.2-6µm
DNA – ITS - Nanopore
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91373342
Steves Voucher
Cystoagaricus "sp-IN1"
DNA
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91369573
Steves V
Pleurotus levis
DNA ITS
Collector: Peggy in classic Atlantic White Cedar habitat; Identifier: Joel Horman, Long Island Mycological Club
On burnt deciduous wood. Forest. Entoloma jahnii complex.
I unfortunately collected this and didn’t shoot it in natural light. In person the stem and gill edges were a grayish blue. The cap is a cold grayish brown. The photos are under incandescent after the mushroom sat out for a bit.
Rusty brown spore print, slight red discoloration of the cap context; growing on live beech tree